Hacker NewsFrom PGP to Mythos: a brief history of export controls that didn't stop anyone
#HackerNews #PGP #Mythos #ExportControls #CyberSecurity #Encryption
LazouIch habe meinen selbst entwickelten Security-Tools ein frisches, moderneres Design verpasst und die Usability weiter optimiert.
Wie immer stehen sie für alle kostenlos bereit:
Security‑Toolbox:
➡️ https://
https://secunis.de/security-toolbox.html
(alle Tools in einer Anwendung)
PGP-Keygenerator:
➡️ https://
https://secunis.de/pgp-keygenerator.html
Passwortgenerator:
➡️ https://
https://secunis.de/passwortgenerator.html
IP-Geolokalisierung:
➡️ https://
https://secunis.de/ip-geolokalisierung.html
😀 ✌🏼
danbeMit wievielen Leuten schreibt ihr privat verchlüsselte eMails?
eclipso Mail EuropeWe’ve added native OpenPGP support to eclipso Mail Europe.
Our goal was simple: make encrypted email usable for everyone - without plugins, keyservers or manual exports.
When composing an email, you can now choose “Enable Encryption”.
A short setup wizard generates your key pair directly in the browser (about 60 seconds).
After that, encrypted sending works with a single click.
The cryptography stays the same.
The complexity does not.
O Iago 
https://www.latacora.com/blog/2019/07/16/the-pgp-problem/
I only post FYI. I do not have the knowledge to be critic with PGP, so I do not have a position. Actually, I would like to know if critics have a real alternative.
Marcel StritzelbergerI was still using a 1024bit DSA key from 2002 which is outdated and insecure. Therefore I created a new primary #PGP key.
The new key = pub rsa4096/AE75642B 2026-06-14 [SC]
Key fingerprint = 508DF18F4ACD2D567AD982FA3D70DE94AE75642B
Tommi 🤯PGP encryption in Thunderbird on Android requires an external key manager. The suggested app is OpenKeychain, discontinued over than two years ago.
Any valid alternatives or workarounds?
I have been using Keyguard as my password manager. Any chance I can use that?
@thunderbird #Thunderbird #Android #email #PGP #encryption #cryptography #Keychain #Keyguard #password #passwordManager
Fossman@Razemix @delta From what I understand, yes and no.
1. Yes with #Thunderbird or other email clients with encrypted email only. No with Delta Chat unless someone makes a TB addon for Chatmail or #autocrypt.
2. Yes if you use #DeltaChat with DC users and TB with #PGP for instance. In any case, Chatmail relays will only allow encrypted mail in or out.
Before any of this, you'll have to keep hold of your chatmail email address and password and also be able to export your private key generated by DeltaChat which I think is not available in the UI anymore. This means you'll need to go the manual classic email registration route not the default onboarding.
I dont know how secondary relays will factor into this.
jordanThe History of Code is Free Speech | hoffmang.com https://hoffmang9.github.io/free-speech/the-history-code-is-free-speech.html
The History of Code is Free Speech
In 1997, when I was working as head of Business Development and interim head of Development for the first PGP, Inc., it was still a violation of U.S. export control laws to send a copy of PGP-encryption software, or any sufficiently “strong encryption” software, outside of the United States. But PGP’s in-house legal counsel Bob Kohn, PGP’s outside legal counsel, Roz Thomsen, and I came up with a “crazy like a fox” idea to put the complete source code to PGP 3.0/5.0 into book form in the OCR-B font. That way, should the book be sent outside the country, the exportation could not be deemed to be a violation of export control laws. As Bob Kohn advised, any regulation that would prohibit the sale of books would be a violation of the First Amendment. At least, that was our hope. That idea was not only a clever one, it really worked.
Netzblockierer@petrillic @filippo so basically a "drop-in replacement" without a "fucky-wucky syntax" like (GnuPG & OpenPGP has)?
- I think that's fair...